B
Kansas City Chiefs
The Chiefs won the night they stopped Rice from sliding. Grade: B.
by Kookaberry ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 6 picks
· 4 steals
· 0 reaches
The value of the weekend has a name and a slot: Brenden Rice, slot 133, roughly 36 picks past where he belonged. They moved the roster forward and banked a B for it.
If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through tight end. They left with wide receiver solved and the rest of the wish list mostly ticked off. They came away with juice, if not much beef up front.
In sum, a sturdy weekend with one asterisk, the tight end spot they never got to.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick No. 32 they get a weapon on the perimeter. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
They robbed the room for Roman Wilson here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
A tidy bit of business in the 95th overall pick, where DJ James graded well above the range. A minor need, but a need all the same.
Brenden Rice in the 133rd pick is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
Tykee Smith slipping to Round 5, Pick 22 is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
A straight-up fair deal on Dillon Johnson at pick 172, value and slot in agreement. The roster fit checks out.